Child of the Mountains
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In the early 1950s, Lydia Hawkins has grown up poor in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia with her widowed mother, brother BJ, who has cystic fibrosis, and her Gran, but when Gran and BJ die and her mother is jailed unjustly, Lydia must try to remain strong and clear her mother's name, even after she learns a shocking secret from the uncle with whom she is sent to live.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Delacorte Press, c2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 259 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780385740791
SUBJECTS
Secrets -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Self-reliance -- Fiction.
Christian life -- Fiction.
West Virginia -- History -- 1951- -- Fiction.